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Mikhail Stern
Mikhail Shaevich Stern (, 1918 – 17 June 2005) was a Soviet endocrinologist, sexologist and dissident. Biography Stern was born in a Jewish family in a small Ukrainian town of Zhmerynka. In 1944 he received his doctor degree, and in 1947 organized in Chernovtsy the first endocrinological center in Ukraine. In 1952 he moved to Vinnitsa. The same year he was discharged because of the Doctors' plot, an imaginary conspiracy of Jewish doctors to poison Soviet leaders. He was reinstated in 1954, a year after Stalin's death. In 1963, Stern became a section head in a newly established endocrinological center in Vinnitsa. In 1974, after his sons, Viktor (born 1941) and August (born 1945), applied for asylum in Israel, Stern was questioned at the Vinnitsa visa office and his flat was searched. Two weeks later he was arrested for swindling and bribery, and in December sentenced to eight years of hard labor in Kharkiv. Meanwhile, his sons left the Soviet Union and campaigned for the rele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhmerynka
Zhmerynka (, ) is a city in Vinnytsia Oblast, central Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Zhmerynka Raion within the oblast. Population: It is located in the historic region of Podolia. Name There are many propositions as far as the origin of name of Zhmerynka is concerned. One of the ideas is that it may be derived from the Polish words, describing the handshake. History Initially there were two neighbouring villages named ''Zmierzynki Wielkie'' ("Big Zmierzynki") and ''Zmierzynki Małe'' ("Small Zmierzynki"), administratively located in the Winnica County in the Bracław Voivodeship in the Lesser Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland. The former was a possession of the Potocki family and the latter of the Głowacki family. The villages were annexed by Russia in the Second Partition of Poland (1793), and their names were Russified to ''Zhmerynka'' from the Polish ''Zmierzynka''. In 1870 a railway station was built, and the settlement began to develop more ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
